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3D Rail Infrastructure Design and Maintenance Software


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Designed for rail designers

Bentley worked closely with leading rail companies to create the highest-quality rail infrastructure software applications.

The industry's understanding of track performance dynamics has increased, and Bentley has kept pace with tools that fully support the science of alignment design. Bentley Rail Track and Power Rail Track include the best of Bentley’s proven InRail and MXRAIL product lines, delivering powerful alignment geometry modeling in a complete civil-engineering context.

Designed for rail desingers
 

World-class users, high-profile global rail projects

Our users build, maintain, and grow the world's largest rail assets. Infrastructure owners and engineering consultancies in more than 30 countries depend on Bentley Rail Track’s powerful geometry engine as a primary tool for alignment optimization and for global rail maintenance, design, and renewal.

Who Uses Bentley Rail Track? 

World class users, high profile global rail projects
 

Compress design development time

Bentley Rail Track adapts readily to virtually any rail design and maintenance workflow, increasing efficiency across the board. It delivers a high degree of automation to well-established workflows, with the added power of an integrated geometry model that brings into play all factors that influence the alignment.

The result: significant productivity improvements and time savings – while offering users greater opportunity to optimize the geometry and reduce rail project costs. 

Compress rail design development time
 

Ensure conformance with standards

Design is streamlined to your specific standards and practices. Bentley Rail Track supports the full spectrum of mathematical methods for developing horizontal and vertical geometry. Libraries of industry-standard turnouts/switch and crossings offer customizable components in the most popular configurations, and support a wide array of bending practices. Design checking tools pinpoint areas of nonconformance with design standards so that problems are quickly identified and resolved. A set of light rail tools provides for the particular requirements of rail design, fabrication, and construction.

Ensure conformance with rail standards
 

Improve collaboration and interoperability

Users of Bentley Rail Track can collaborate seamlessly across multiple disciplines, using different file formats – in DGN and DWG environments. Integration with Bentley ProjectWise enables collaborative design development and data sharing with the entire project team in a secure environment. The software works with Digital InterPlot to perform automated plot set generation and Web-based access to plot archives.

 

Improve rail design collaboration and interoperability
 

Model complete track information

Bentley Rail Track gives you the flexibility to accurately model track geometry for any conditions – and the power of complete control over the geometry. The software provides a full set of tools for horizontal, cant, and vertical alignment design – either by the points-of-intersection method or the element method. Comprehensive surface editing, profile creation, and cross-section tools provide flexibility in the design of ballast, formation, roadway, and earthworks. The result is sustainable, cost-effective, easily constructed track infrastructure.

 

Model complete rail track information
 

Streamline maintenance and renewal

Users can hit the ground running, working from existing track data derived from virtually any data source. Advanced least squares regression analysis generates best-fit alignments which are then interactively tweaked. Designing effectively with regard to condition, performance, and ride data, you have the freedom to factor in costs, constructability, and construction time for rail maintenance and renewal projects.

 

Streamline rail maintenance and renewal
 

Get immediate visual feedback

Whether performing regression analysis, designing spirals with associated cant algorithms, or modeling earthworks, Bentley Rail track gives you immediate visual feedback as you work. This 2D/3D software application integrates the horizontal and vertical alignment and automatically displays the geometry model accurately. With tools such as curvature diagrams, lift diagrams, and slew diagrams, visual validation of the rail design is a snap.

 

Get immediate visual feedback of rail design
 

Proven rail technology

Bentley rail technology is used across many facets of the rail industry, delivering greater efficiency in all areas of the rail infrastructure life cycle – survey, design, construction, maintenance, operations, and asset management. Bentley Rail track is a comprehensive tool for infrastructure planning, technical engineering development, design, and renewal. It is an excellent choice for urban rail design, where transport solutions must be integrated for effective construction and implementation.

 

Proven rail technology
 

Choose a global leader

Bentley is a global leader in enterprise engineering software for large-scale projects in transportation, building, and plant engineering. Bentley’s Rail and Transit solutions enable users to capture, create, modify, and publish engineering content for the full range of needs when planning for rail construction, maintenance, and operations.

 

Choose a global leader in enterprise engineering software
 
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